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or off-colored
Synonyms & Antonyms of off-color
hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent
- the movie was rated PG-13 for some swearing and off-color jokes
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Near Antonyms for off-color
- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- staid,
- straitlaced
- (or straightlaced),
- Victorian
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The first known use of off-color was in 1854
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